Sentences with phrase «ecosystem level»

At the overall ecosystem level, it looks at the need for a proper legal structure, regulatory restraint, diversity of viewpoints and scientific research in tandem with business development.

The widespread pattern of forest drying, evidenced by ecosystem level moisture deficits and larger and more severe wildfires, indicates we are entering a new era of forest management.

Heat waves, extreme precipitation events and flooding or extreme droughts, are also what actually cause climate damage — for instance lower agricultural productivity (as during the extremely hot 2003 summer in Western Europe) or biodiversity decline at ecosystem levels ranging from aquatic desert systems to entire rainforest biomes.

That those two ecosystem level actions were implemented in conjunction with island fox recovery actions was fortuitous.

We present an integrated modeling study designed to investigate changes in ecosystem level phenology over Europe associated with changes in climate pattern, by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

«Much of what we know about climate change on the Western Antarctic Peninsula at the marine ecosystem level covers the top predators and prey — seals, whales, penguins and krill,» said co-author William Fraser, a penguin expert at Polar Oceans Research Group, a non-profit research group in Sheridan, Montana.

And since bitcoin has a larger economy and a longer head start on solving these problems, I am not convinced that ethereum, at an ecosystem level, is more advanced than bitcoin or will be able to outpace it.

The objective of this course is to accelerate your progress in the program and expose you to the process of experimentation at the business, strategic and ecosystem level.

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

The topics were informed by interviews with both industry and research, with some being primarily driven by advances and investment in science and technology while others require broader operational changes at the business and ecosystem level.

At the ecosystem level, the maintenance of natural areas within and around organic fields and absence of chemical inputs create suitable habitats for wildlife.

Therefore, the antimicrobial effects of silver nanoparticles could have impacts at the ecosystem level — for example, affecting plants whose growth is dependent on soil - dwelling microorganisms.

This study measured CO2 emissions from permafrost thaw and its impact on the carbon balance on an ecosystem level.

«By studying eelgrass meadows on a ecosystem level, we were able to observe how plants and animals interact under changing climatic conditions.

Today we take the unity for granted, from the cell and molecular level through to the interactions of different groups at the ecosystem level.

Laboratory and field research is needed to refine gene drive mechanisms and better understand how gene drives work, from the molecular level through species and ecosystem levels.

The carbon cycle and the water cycle, arguably the two most important large - scale processes for life on Earth, both depend on biodiversity - at genetic, species, and ecosystem levels and can yield feedbacks to climate change.

Five thematic areas have been identified which cover the range of processes from the base of the marine food chain to the community and ecosystem level, and of mechanisms from the sub-cellular to the whole organism level.

Looking into historic boundary formation from the cellular and developmental to the organismal and ecosystem level, we can start to understand how boundaries have influenced variability in species interactions and developmental processes that are required for the evolution and diversification of form and function.

Ocean acidification (OA) is known to affect marine biota from the organism to the ecosystem level but with largely unknown consequences for the cycling of key elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.

Lectures examine fundamental biological principles, from the sub-cellular to the ecosystem level with an emphasis on critical thinking and the scientific method.

Attempts to extend current global models to coastal ecosystems may yield spurious results, unless these models capture other relevant processes, such as regional watershed processes and changes in landscapes at the ecosystem level, which are not tractable at the global scale.